They were the people the victims did not come home to that day, the people who lived with an emotional rawness that was immediate, extraordinarily public and enduring.

The plots of Arlt's novels swing from criminal plans to emotional rawness.

His experience with Marion notwithstanding, he was still a sixteen-year-old who had underestimated the emotional rawness of the moment-after all, he hadn't known such moments.

The film was heralded as a searing look at race relations in the 1950's and 60's, and drew praise for its emotional rawness and the bravery of both mother and daughter.

His "Francesca da Rimini," for example, played up the score's emotional rawness, largely by demanding a brass sound so tense and aggressive that the music was put on edge.

But for a tantalizing second, we have seen the human flesh beneath the greasepaint, and Coward's determinedly superficial play has flickered with intimations of emotional rawness.

Yet one of Mr. Jones's most deliberate and, ultimately, crucial decisions was to rein in the work's emotional rawness a bit.

Mr. Jordan's tonal tinkerings and his immense, lit-from-within sound took on an emotional rawness that his recordings can't convey.

Add to this maze of dramatic contradictions a vocal line that, particularly in the third act, is unrelenting in its focus and emotional rawness.

A Scottish writer's striking first collection of short stories, marked by a sense of menace, pain and emotional rawness.